People ex rel. Greer v. Hunt

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• observing that unlike punitive sanctions that punish a person’s failure to perform a past act, remedial sanctions coerce performance of an act that is within the person’s immediate power to perform
• “Given that K.L.N. was found to be in civil contempt of court, a criminal, punitive sanction is unlawful.”
• “A contempt order that does not offer an opportunity for the recalcitrant party to purge himself of the contempt may not be imposed in a civil contempt proceeding.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).